Friday, July 27, 2012

on reading - diane setterfield

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through
the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book
before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the
previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your
clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.